Music, Art and Performance from Liszt to Riot Grrrl: The Musicalization of Art

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Opening with an account of print portraiture facilitating Franz Liszt’s celebrity status and concluding with Riot Grrrl’s noisy politics of feminism and performance, this interdisciplinary anthology charts the relationship between music and the visual arts from late Romanticism and the birth of modernism to ‘postmodernism’, while crossing from Western art to the Middle East. Focused on music as a central experience of art and life, these essays scrutinize ‘the musicalization of art’ focusing on the visual and performing arts and detailing significant instances of intra-art relations between c. 1840 and the present day. Essays reflect on the aesthetic relationships of music to painting, performance and installation, sound-and-silence, time-and-space. The insistent influence of Wagner is considered as well as the work and ideas of Manet, Satie and Cage, Thomas Wilfred, La Monte Young and Eliasson. What distinguishes these studies are the convictions that music is never alone and that a full understanding of the ‘isms’ of the last two hundred years is best achieved when music’s influential presence in the visual arts is acknowledged and interrogated. Cover page Halftitle page Title page Copyright page Dedication Contents List of Plates and Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction A Work in Two Parts – Continuities and Discontinuities from Romanticism to Postmodernism From Romanticism . . . Romanticism into modernism . . . To postmodernism Contributors to this field Themes and interests About this book Notes Prelude The Musical in Art Notes The Musicalization of Art, Part 1: Spaces of Intimacy, Touch and Temporality 1 Romantic Musical Celebrity and Printed Portraits Visual Intimacy and Mass-Market Distance 1. Iconological nominalism 2. Synaesthesic awareness 3. The ‘physiognomic paradox’ of portraits Notes 2 Making an Entrance Manet’s Still Life with Hat and Guitar Touch in painting and music Painting and performance Imitation in painting and music Realism in Courbet and Manet Time in painting and music Conclusion Notes 3 Time in Fin-de-Siècle Painting Paul Signac Alphonse Osbert Františ ek Kupka Conclusion Notes 4 Erik Satie and the Interart Genre Nomenclature: the interart designation Artistic materials: image, music and text Representation and the compositional process Unity and the concepts of time and space Conclusion Notes 5 The ‘Figure in the Carpet’ M. K. Čiurlionis and the Synthesis of the Arts The ‘universal music’ of the arts The composer and painter M. K. Čiurlionis The motif of ‘ascension’: Čiurlionis, Ivanov and the theosophical doctrine Čiurlionis, Scriabin and Ivanov’s notion of the synthesis of the arts The flight into the fourth dimension Notes The Musicalization of Art, Part 2: Spaces of Performance, Sound and Silence 6 Music, Sound and Light Embodied Experiences of the Modernist and Postmodern Gesamtkunstwerk Nietzsche’s Schein Vienna’s Gesamtkunstwerk Landscape: the elemental forces in Wagner’s and Eliasson’s work Challenging the binaries of time and space Framing the postmodern artwork: the Turbine Hall as Wagnerian space The postmodern Gesamtkunstwerk – The Weather Project Sensing and sounding In conclusion – Wagnerian aesthetics through time and space Notes 7 Squaring the Circle Wilfred’s Lumia and his Rejection of ‘Colour Music’ Notes 8 In Concert The Emergence of the Audio-Visual Moment in Minimalism Cage and minimalism Characterizing ‘minimal’ art and music Notes 9 Riffing the Index Romare Bearden and the Hand of Jazz Improvising within the veil Riffing the Index The art of the ‘cut’ Notes 10 The Politics of Music and Image in Contemporary Iranian Art ‘The Impossibility of Putting One’s Body and Voice on a Stage’1 Listen (2010) Women and music in Islam Women’s music festivals Conclusion Notes 11 Contemporary Feminist Art, the Musical Listening to the Visual Legacy of Riot Grrrl Early Riot Grrrl Miranda July The voice in Second Wave feminism Influences Wynne Greenwood Pussy Riot Notes Postlude Notes Bibliography Index Plates